text to speech software

George Toft plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:18:25 -0500


"der.hans" wrote:
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> Am 19. Dec, 2002 schw=E4tzte Mike Starke so:
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> > Is there any text to speech software one would recommend
> > for Linux? Preferably OS.
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> emacspeak-ss - Emacspeak speech server for several synthesizers
> festival - speech synthesis system
> recite - English text speech synthesizer
> cowsay - a configurable talking cow
> emacspeak - speech output interface to Emacs
> flite - a small run-time speech synthesis engine
> konq-speaker - text-to-speech plugins for Konqueror and Kate
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> There was work being done to get flite working well enough to use on th=
e
> iPAQ.
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> I've only used festival. Feeding it something with lots of symbols is k=
inda
> fun. It had timing problems, e.g. starts subsequent sentences before
> finishing the sentence it's on, so you get two layers of speech. I don'=
t
> know anyone else who's gotten that effect, so I must be special.
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> ciao,
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> der.hans
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I have festival's output dump to a file, then use play to play the
file.  No problems.

George

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